| 单词 | clipped |
| 释义 | clipped, clipt, ppl. a.|klɪpt|
[f. clip v.2 + -ed.]
Cut as with shears or scissors, cut short, spec. having the hair or wool shorn, etc. Also of speech: (a) mumbled or indistinct (see clip v.2 5 b); (b) pronounced quickly, distinctly, and without drawling.
1483Cath. Angl. 67 Clippyd, Intonsus. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. vi. 4 This clipped maner of speeche. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1549/4 Stollen or strayed..a Black Mare..a clipp'd mark on both Buttocks. 1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 346 If the Mint should Coin clip'd Money. 1788Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 71 Straight alleys and clipped hedges. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. iii. 253 A clipt French puppy. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 153 Jeremy Taylor..compels his clipped fancy to the conventual discipline of prose. 1931T. H. Pear Voice & Personality 30 A crisp, concise and close-clipped pronunciation. 1946R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby 115 John's voice came through, more than usually clipped. 1959Listener 2 July 12/2 It is a tone that can only be described (nonsensically) as ‘toneless’, very flat, completely unemotional, casual and clipped. |
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